Sunday, July 01, 2007

We've always called these drinks "Fancy Drinks." I wish a had a better name but it's what we called them the first time I made them eight years ago and the name stuck. Simple. Direct. Comprehensive.

The whole trick is to mix orange juice or grapefruit juice with lemon-lime soda in equal amounts. A cup of 7-up with a cup of orange juice for example. Fill a glass with the mixture then gently and carefully pour a couple tablespoons of grenadine (cherry syrup) into the bottom.

The grenadine sinks making a beautiful two-tone drink guaranteed to impress any child and most adults. In the picture I used lemonade because I was out of orange juice but you get the idea. Orange juice really works better and looks prettier--just a little advice.

Cheers!

lemon-lime sodaorange juice or grapefruit juicegrenadine

Use these drinks to celebrate Canada Day today, and in celebration of that great nation, Canada, I present a little something to make you smile:

Makes you want to brush up on your geography, no? Oh, and "poutine" is a French-Canadian dish, not the Canadian prime minister.

That video always makes me laugh. I asked my Canadian husband this morning if there is a pledge of allegiance or something, and if the flag means to them what the USA flag does to us. All I got was, "Well, we get pretty serious about our anthem." And when I asked him how old Canada was today I got referred to my history book.....still have to research that one.

A friend told me last night that when I'm finally eligible to take my Canadian citizenship test that it won't be incredibly important to study the nitty gritty details. Basically, I need to know things like what country is south of us, and who someone like Stephen Harper is called. =)

Gotta Love Rick Mercer! Have you seen this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnpVH7kIb_8

(FYI, we're 140 years today).

One of my favourites though is when as co-ops some Torontonians go to the states to work, like Michegan, Washington, Oregon (the "northern border states") and they ask us how we like coming south. Actually we've come north...Kim

I used to live in Canada (my husband is Canadian) and I found that video hilarious. Before I moved to Canada I could not name Canada's provinces. It is kind of shameful how little Americans know or care about Canada.